Turn Around Look At Me cover

Released 58 years ago this November

Turn Around Look At Me

Bee Gees · 1968

39 min · 16 tracks · pop music

Elevation

Our rating, out of 100 — and why.

AI-generated from five scored dimensions. An opinion, not a measurement.

45 /100
Lowland
Higher than 1% of albums we've rated

Strong individual songs sit in a retrospective sequence that moves between periods instead of building an album-length arc.

What we noticed

  • The first seven tracks move through early Bee Gees songs before “Spicks and Specks” arrives eighth; the sequence then shifts to later album cuts.
  • “Second Hand People,” “Everyday I Have to Cry Some,” “Monday’s Rain,” and “I Am the World” close the 16-track sequence as a run of older material rather than a newly developed finale.
Composition 25% of the score
6/10

the writing — melody, harmony, structure, lyrics

Craft 20% of the score
6/10

production, performance, arrangement

Durability 25% of the score
5/10

whether it rewards returning to it

Distinctiveness 18% of the score
3/10

whether it sounds like itself

Sequencing 12% of the score
3/10

running order, pacing, length

Influence 2/10

Little footprint beyond its audience. Reported but not counted — how far a record travelled describes its reception rather than the record, and a newer release has had less time to travel than an older one.

Tracklist

Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.

  • 1 Wine & Women 2:53
  • 2 Turn Around, Look at Me 2:18
  • 3 How Many Birds 1:58
  • 4 Claustrophobia 2:13
  • 5 Three Kisses of Love 1:50
  • 6 To Be or Not to Be 2:14
  • 7 I Don’t Think It’s Funny 2:54
  • 8 Spicks and Specks 2:49
  • 9 How Love Was True 2:18
  • 10 Take Hold of That Star 2:42
  • 11 Follow the Wind 2:11
  • 12 I Was Lover, a Leader of Men 3:32
  • 13 Second Hand People 2:01
  • 14 Everyday I Have to Cry Some 2:06
  • 15 Monday’s Rain 2:55
  • 16 I Am the World 2:32

Reference: MusicBrainz · Wikidata